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Maya Lin


American
October 5, 1959
Architect
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The role of art in society differs for every artist.


Maya Lin
Tags: Society Every Art
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All my work is much more peaceful than I am.


Maya Lin
Tags: Work More Than
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.


Maya Lin
Tags: War Lives Lost
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
Maya Lin
Tags: Want Some Thought
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
Maya Lin
Tags: Me Part Idea
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
Maya Lin
Tags: You Think Out
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Maya Lin
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
Maya Lin
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Maya Lin
Tags: Me Think I Think
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
Maya Lin
Tags: You Know Your
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Maya Lin